SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/27/2013
8:12 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Death is
Unavoidable PT-2
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ecclesiastes
9:3-
Message of the
verses: Just a reminder of how we
ended up with yesterday’s SD when Dr. Wiersbe points out that “Solomon pointed
out three possible responses that people make to the ever-present fear of
death.”
Escape (9:3): “3
This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one fate for
all men. Furthermore, the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil and
insanity is in their hearts throughout their lives. Afterwards they go to the
dead.”
Solomon says in this verse that the hearts of the sons of
men are full of evil and insanity is in their hearts throughout their
lives. The word that is translated “insanity”
mans madness and so I would not be so quick to say that all men are
insane. All men are born with a sin
nature, and nature that only wants to do wrong, but when a person is born from
above they receive a new nature that always wants to do right, so when a
believer yields to the old nature they will not do things that are pleasing to
the Lord.
Solomon also has some of his favorite words in this verse
“under the sun” are the words that I am speaking about, and this means things
that happen on this earth. He then talks
about the fate of all people who are living under the sun, and that is
death. We have talked about this in a
previous SD, and so I won’t go over all of what we already went over. The subject of death can bring out the worst
in people, especially those who do not know the Lord as their personal
Savior. Dr. Wiersbe quotes a man named
Joseph Bayly who wrote a book entitled “Last Thing We Talk About,” and I suppose
that many people have had this on their minds when they are around a loved one
who is ready to face death. I had to do
this almost a year ago as my mother was about to die. There were five of us around her praying when
she died and my sister said that she looked up right before our mother died and
she had a smile on her face, and knowing that made me very happy.
This will be a short SD due to the fact that I am not
feeling well today.
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: Core Ten boon,
who was a lady who lived through the concentration camps of WWII told a story
in her book which she called “The Hiding Place” as they all in her family were
facing death. Her father asked Core when
she got the ticket to ride on the train, to which she replied “when I board the
train.”
My Steps of Faith for Today: Trust the Lord to give me the wisdom to make
a decision that will bring glory to Him over the illnesses that I have been
having.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
Question: “Peter.”
Today’s Bible
Question: “What classification is given
to the last seven letters in the New Testament?”
Answer in tomorrow’s SD.
5/27/2013 8:41 PM
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